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"word": "encephalitis lethargica"
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"ref": "1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation at Oxford, page 42",
"text": "Europe lay then under a deep lethargy.",
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"ref": "1959 March, D. Bertram, “An old friend - the 9.7”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141",
"text": "As already indicated, timekeeping is very poor. Point-to-point times are not kept, even with a clear road, and whilst fast running has never been a feature of the route because of the large number of junctions and speed restrictions, this Sunday night lethargy is hard to explain.",
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"ref": "1995 March 20, Bruce W. Nelan, “Crime and Punishment”, in Time",
"text": "Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is \"amazed\" at the government's lethargy.",
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"ref": "2008 May 9, Nick Fletcher, “Lethargic FTSE lifted by hopes of mining move”, in The Guardian",
"text": "The increase in mining stocks helped the FTSE 100 shake off some earlier lethargy and close 9.8 points higher at 6270.8, despite the disappointment of unchanged UK interest rates.",
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"word": "amti"
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"roman": "tʻmracutʻyun",
"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
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"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
"word": "暮氣"
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"alt": "むかんしん",
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"word": "無関心"
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"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
"word": "昏睡"
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"_dis1": "79 21",
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"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
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"roman": "mŕtvilo",
"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
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"roman": "apátičnost",
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"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"_dis1": "79 21",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
"word": "tīrohea"
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"_dis1": "79 21",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
"word": "tūpakutanga"
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"_dis1": "79 21",
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"sense": "state of extreme torpor or apathy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "letargia"
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"feminine"
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"roman": "apatíčnostʹ",
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"feminine"
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"word": "апати́чность"
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"feminine"
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"ref": "c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2",
"text": "This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie, a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.",
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{
"ref": "2003 October 20, Amanda Ripley, “At Last, the Pill for Men”, in Time",
"text": "So in order to avoid unpleasant side effects like lethargy and sexual dysfunction, most recent trials also gave men testosterone supplements.",
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"roman": "keġcamah",
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"word": "կեղծամահ"
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"word": "մահաքուն"
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"word": "вялост"
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"word": "疲劳"
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"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
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"word": "Schlafsucht"
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"roman": "iscŕpenost",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"word": "tīrohea"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "letargi"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "letargia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "letargie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vjálostʹ",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вя́лость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ustálostʹ",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уста́лость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "utomlénije",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "утомле́ние"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "letargo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aletargamiento"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "letargi"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"word": "letarji"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"word": "yorgunluk"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "pathological state of fatigue",
"word": "yorguntu"
}
],
"word": "lethargy"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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